At last week’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his weeks of threats to annex Greenland had yielded fruit.
“We have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Jan. 21. “This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”
Wait them out. As Saul Alinsky said, a tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
On Saturday, the national media had a nervous breakdown over a border patrol agent shooting and killing a domestic terrorist who brought a gun and dozens of rounds of ammo to a “mostly peaceful protest.”
The New York Times best articulated the media spin: “An ICU nurse shot by federal agents was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said. A New York Times video analysis shows he was holding a phone, not a gun.”
According to a new report, it would take the average individual a jaw-dropping 44 years to save up enough money to afford a home in Toronto without financial help from family
Housing affordability is one of the most critical issues of our time. It is dividing generations, both economically and politically.
If you take a gander at new data from the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), it’s little wonder why housing is the top political issue for millions of young Canadians in poll after poll.
With her instantly recognisable gravelly-voice and big, blonde hair, Gaynor Hopkins became an international sensation as Bonnie Tyler with her 80s hit, Total Eclipse of the Heart.
43 years on, and the song has cemented its place as one of the most famous power ballads of all time by surpassing a billion streams on Spotify.
But despite joining Taylor Swift, The Weekend and Eminem in the exclusive one billion club, Neath-born Tyler says that she’s made “about nothing” in revenue from the classic track.
Nope never understood the video and all of Jim Steinman’s song are 8 minutes long.
Just something different for a snow day.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada is warning of consequences to the continental defence pact if Canada does not move forward with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.
“NORAD would have to be altered,” U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told CBC News in an exclusive interview at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
He says the United States would likely need to purchase more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and would fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S.
I think Canada will come to resemble the Albania of the Soviet era.
Britain has quietly repatriated Islamic State-linked women and children who were held alongside Shamima Begum in Syria, according to a director of the camp that holds the so-called Isis brides.
Six women in camps held by the western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been sent back to Britain without fanfare, along with nine children.
There have been concerns that Isis prisoners might escape in the chaos engulfing eastern Syria as the central authorities begin to reclaim territory from the Kurdish-led SDF.
A senior U.S. health official is sounding the alarm after explosive revelations that Canada’s government-run euthanasia program is now intertwined with organ harvesting, calling it a “strange new horror” that should terrify the world.
Jim O’Neil, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, blasted Canada’s so-called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
O’Neil responded after reports confirmed that organs are being taken from patients who are medically euthanized.
Farhad was blinded by the gas canister that struck his face when a bullet pierced his neck.
Iranian security forces had fired on him during clashes with anti-regime protesters on the streets of Tehran.
His friends screamed his name as he lay in a pool of blood. Meanwhile, his phone buzzed in his pocket with the unanswered calls from his parents.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his declaration that the United States will now “run” Venezuela are deeply concerning on a number of levels: political, legal and moral.
But we should not forget, either, about the environmental cost of Trump’s plan to ramp up production of Venezuelan oil. Nor should we ignore what Trump’s growing hunger for other countries’ natural resources might mean for Canada in the coming years.
I think it will be a relatively painless and selective annexation if it happens.
I’m never deleting this app lol pic.twitter.com/EG5AtZeWXS
— Canadian Jennifer 🇨🇦 (@cdntradegrljenn) January 25, 2026
h/t Mauser
A man was stabbed and cars and businesses were smashed up as fights broke out between groups of people of Syrian and Kurdish heritage in Manchester this week.
At least four people were arrested after hundreds descended on the city’s iconic Curry Mile for a second night of protests, led by the local Kurdish community, on Wednesday.
Disorder first broke out on Tuesday following a protest in the Rusholme area of the city, with police putting in place a Section 34 dispersal order.
MANCHESTER MEETS KURDISTAN!
Kurd-supporting demonstrators took to the streets last night. England looks like a third world country and has gone back 400 years pic.twitter.com/r4TzwRNaOI
— HJB News (@HJB_News__) January 21, 2026
Well, who saw that coming? Yesterday’s threat from President Donald Trump – that Canada would face 100% tariffs on all exports to the United States (US) if it “does a deal with China” – was widely reported and widely derided in Canadian political circles.
Yet if you strip away the hyperbole and the social media grandstanding, Trump’s response was both predictable and in a narrow strategic sense, reasonable. Think about it; to establish a continental security perimeter against Russia and China, he’s trying to get his hands on Greenland. But even as he’s doing that, the Government of Canada is opening up a backdoor entry point to China.
(Incognito)
sorry for the late delivery pic.twitter.com/xGt0wtXxr5
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) January 24, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce an increase to the GST credit on Monday, as part of a larger suite of affordability measures intended to offset the rising cost of groceries.
Two senior government sources speaking on the condition they not be named say that quarterly GST payments will increase by 25 per cent over the next five years, and the measure is expected to affect approximately 12 million Canadians.
It will also include a one-time top-up of 50 per cent in June. The program will be called the “Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit.”
Electioneering?
. . . . and a follow-up. 😆@fancypants_s https://t.co/IWADGZ9M3N
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) January 25, 2026
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t think supporters of the Alberta independence movement want their province to join the United States. Her comments came a day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent weighed in on the separatism movement during a Jan. 23 interview on the American network Real America’s Voice.
Smith said Albertans have been “frustrated” with the federal government but have not indicated to her that they want the province to join their southern neighbour.
